>>106025537>>106025652>>106025676>>106025691>>106025728>>106025733>>106025777>>106025764>>106025788>>106025814>>106026456okay then, jew here. According to R.Sherwin Wine, and as a study of jewish history, jewish people are not an ethnic group, nor a religious group - they are a cultural group composed of many ethnic groups and vastly different religious views.
The question of who is a jew can be found by examing the common criteria.Religious halakha, ethnicity, and choice. Traditional religious law is called 'Halakha', and is not now, nor has it ever been standard to all jewish movements or communities. The core of the law is the torah, which is contradictory and evolved/was edited over centuries. In the torah we see that parental, not maternal decent to jewishness is valid. In later rabbinc judgements, maternal is valid and paternal is not. The Katarites, samaritans, rabbinic movements and extinct movements all had conflicts. Some of the chasidim hold their rebbe's words as second to god alone.
Then there's cultural jews. Who self identify, and are accepted as jews by their communities. They do the holidays, speak hebrew or maybe some yiddish, and are defacto jews - but don't claim jewishness. Who am I to force the mantle upon them?
There is no jewish ethnic group. You can be ashkenazic, yemeni, Sephardic and be non-jewish. By Israel's view, only orthodox and chasidic jews are allowed right of return. This really pisses off the non-orthodox jews, as israel uses halakha to determine jewishness as well. A fucking catholic priest got right of return!
So who is a jew?- whoever can say the words, "I am a jew." Whoever would stand with the jewish people for good times and the antisemetic shit is a jew in my book.
ps- hebrew is just relabeled canaanite. it's a language, not a people/ethnicity/whatthefuckever.
